Archive for December, 2016

Got kids that won’t make it until midnight to celebrate the New Year? Or maybe kids that you don’t want to stay up until midnight? Celebrate 2017 early with a storytime, music, some fun, and a balloon drop at noon today! This event is for all ages, and parental participation is required (because it’s more fun that way).Here’s more info!

If you have the Chick-fil-a One app, log in now to get a FREE copy of the audiobook of “A Christmas Carol” added to your Audible account! Tim Curry reads this version, and he seems like a perfect narrator for one of my favorite stories!

Thanks to the sponsorship of Grayson Subaru, all pets at the Blount County Animal Center will have reduced fees today and tomorrow. During business hours on December 22-23, you can adopt a homeless animal for a reduced fee of $30! This is an incredible opportunity to make sure shelter animals have a “Home for the Holidays”!

Today only (12/20), Target is offering 30% certain coffee brewers and coffees online; this includes Starbucks bagged coffee – PLUS, automatically save $6 when you buy 3 bags! Plus, you’ll get 5% off for using a Target Red Card! With my Red card discount and tax included, I was able to get 3 bags for $12.87! But, it gets better!

Go here to submit your receipt to Starbucks for having bought 3 bags of coffee, and they’ll email you a $5 Starbucks gift card! I just took a photo of my computer screen as my receipt, and got the UPC codes off Target’s website, and I got my email with my gift card an hour later! So it’s kind of like getting 3 bags of coffee for $7.87!

The Vienna Coffee House Players will be doing their fourth annual production of A Christmas Carol at Vienna on Thursday, December 8th at 7 pm. The version that will be used is based on the 1939 radio theater script used by Orson Welles on his program Mercury Theater. Local musician Bill Cabage (of Pistol Creek Catch of the Day) will be playing Christmas music before the production. Don’t miss this exciting rendition of this much loved story!

Special Holiday Hours Christmas & New Years
Christmas Eve 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Christmas Day Closed
December 26: 1 p.m. to 9:00p.m.
New Years Eve 10 a.m. to 10:00p.m.
New Years Day 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.

PARKING:
Parking is free at all city-owned garages after 6 p.m. on weekdays and throughout the weekend, except for specific special events. City-owned garages include the Locust Street garage, the State Street garage and the Market Square garage.

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Salon Azure in Alcoa will have its annual Customer Appreciation Day this Thursday, December 8. This is a great day to purchase gift certificates, as they offer bonuses and specials that you can’t get any other time of year! (Hint: I buy discounted gift certificates for myself!) There will also be prizes, live music, and appetizers. In addition, Salon Azure will be donating 10% of all service, retail and gift certificate sales to the Gatlinburg community to help them cope and recover from the recent devastating fire.

If you miss the Alcoa Customer Appreciation Day, you can also visit the Knoxville location on Friday for special deals. The hours are:

For the second year, Vienna Coffee House and Vienna Coffee Company will be running their 12 Days of Christmas Sale! December 13th – 24th, they’ll be running a series of promotions and sales, but in order to find out what the deals are, you need to follow them on Facebook, Twitter, AND Instagram. They will be posting a new promotion each day on a different social media website.

(Hint: check out Facebook on Dec. 13th, because you may be getting something FREE for this deal!)